Support for alliance organisations and the movement

Sustain's diversity outreach programme centres collaboration and movement building. We want to support organisations in our alliance - and beyond - to centre racial justice and explore how they can become anti-racist and equity-centred organisations.

Anti-racism training

In 2025, Sustain, Eating Better and Social Justice Collective, co-led a series of anti-racism workshops for people working in the sustainable food and farming sector. Reflections and resources from the three sessions are available:

• Session 1: self-reflection and understanding
• Session 2: impact and why it matters to the sector
• Session 3: action plan and race equity lens

Any alliance member organisation can get in touch with Sustain's Diversity Outreach Coordinator to discuss their approach to anti-racism and racial justice work. 

Unearthing Empire webinars

As part of Culture Roots Collective, we have hosted three webinar exploring how colonialism has shaped what we grow, eat and value in the UK.

• Food, land and colonial legacies in the UK: an overview of how Empire shaped what we eat, grow and value today and the impact it has on current global majority farmers. Featuring academic Corinne Fowler and writer and grower Naomi Terry.
• Reclaiming food and community care: bringing together landworkers and activists who are reclaiming ancestral foodways and reimagining community nourishment in the UK. Featuring seed sovereignty coordinator Randa Toko, radical dietician Lucy Aphramor and community organiser Obie Pearl.
• Culture, community and food futures: moving beyond food policy to explore and celebrate the role of people from the global majority in the food system. Featuring writer Mallika Basu, chef and community organiser Betty Vandy, and network coordinator Gnisha Bevan.

Food and racial justice summit

In June 2025, we co-hosted the first ever summit on food and racial justice: Gathering Table which was a celebration of the work going on in the sector, as well as a place for useful provocation on how to move forward. Some of the topics included:

• Allyship, solidarity and brave spaces
• Embracing culture for inclusive futures
• Dismantling justice: decolonial decision-making

In January 2026 we held a follow up in-person session on solidarity and collective care which offered a much-needed and alternative way to work on this agenda. There is appetite to continue to hold in-person gatherings to learn, share, build relationships, collaborate, and centre wellbeing.